Toy cap-pistol.



PATENTED APR. 21, 1903;

' W. J. TURNBULL.

N0 MODEL.

UNiTE STATES ATENT Fries.

l/Vi JIER JOSEPH TURNBULL, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF 'lHREE-FOURTHS TO JOHN M. SHERROUSE, OF NEvV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

TOYYCAP-PISTOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 725,802, dated April 21, 1903. Application filed March 22, 1902. Herlai No- 99,446. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER JOSEPH TUBN- BULL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Orleans, in the parish of Or- 5 leans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Toy Cap-Pistol, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact, description.

My invention relates to an improvement in E 'toy pistols, and has for its object to provide a rapid-fire toy cap-pistol of efiective and economic construction, comprising but few parts, and those. not liable to disarrangement or breakage, and, further, to provide a construc- I tion which can be operated as rapidly as the finger .can be drawn back and forth by any child capable of grasping the trigger and wherein the feed of the cap-tape will be positive and uninterruptedly responsive. The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indi- (rate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved toy pistol, the cover-plate for the magazinechamber being open. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isaside' elevation of the handle-section of the pistol, a part of the frame being removed, showing the hammer in 1" nil-cocked position; and Fig. 4: is a detail perspective view of the trigger ind connected feed device for the tape of caps. The frame of the pistol may be made of any suitable material and preferably consists, as shown, of the barrel A, solid or tubular, but 40 provided with a closed breech and a handle B, preferably integral with the barrel and having a chamber 0 throughout its length, open at that portion 0 back of the breech a, and the handle is extended beyond the breech below the barrel, atwhich portion 6 of the handle a chamber 12 is made in direct commuuication with the handle-chamber O. The outer portion of the chamber 1) is open, as is also preferably the forward upper portion of 5o'the handle-chamber C. The upper-portion of said handle-chamber O and upper portion iet extension-chamber b are olosedby a side plate 10, usually carried along the barrel and secured thereto, forming a side section of the barrel. The trigger consists of astel- 5 lated wheel D,havinga number of cam-shaped tec 11 curved in the same direction, each of which teeth constitutes a trigger, and preferably while one longitudinal edge of a trig- V ger-tooth 11 is curved the opposing edge is straight. Although any number of teeth 11 may be employed, usually five have been found sufficient. 4 v

The trigger-wheel D is provided with a hub or drum l2,a ttached to or integral with its inner surface, and in the periphery of the hub a series of pins 13 is secured, corresponding in number to the number of trigger-teeth 11 and occupying a central position on the hub or drum in line with the trigger-teeth, the said pins 13 being nearly opposite the point where two teeth connect, as is shown in Fig. 3. Smaller pins 14 are at each side of each pin 13, and said smaller pins are likewise located at points between the larger pins 7 5 13. vIn fact, the smaller pins 14c are in circum'fierential series near the edges ofthe drum.

The teeth 13 and 14: are adapted to feed a cap-tape 15 to the hammer E, and the larger pins 13 insure an accuracy of food, being adapted to enter apertures 16 in the tape located at equal distances apart between the explosive-pockets 17 of the tape. The tape is wound upon the spool or reel 18, mounted to turn upon a spindle 19, fixed iu the lower portion of the handle-chamber O, and the smaller pins 14 enter the tape and assist in feeding the same and serve to direct the apertures 16 to the larger pins 13, as is shown in Fig. 2.

The trigger-wheel D is mounted to turn upon a removable spindle 20 in the extension-chamber b, and when the trigger-wheel is mounted two of the teeth 11 extend out at 5 the outer opening of said chamber b, their straight edges facing forward, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 3. When the trigger-wheel is mounted, the hub on drum is wholly'within the chamber b. ice

re], and finally the cap-tape is carried to an engagement with said breech of the barrel, as is also best shown in Fig. 3.

The hammer E is arranged to strike against the breech of the barrel A and extends out from the handle-chamber 0 through its upper opening a, and the lower end of the ham mer isheld in the said chamber through the medium of a spring 24. (Shown in Figs. 1 and 3.) The hammer E is provided at its innor or forward longitudinal edge about centrally between its ends with a forward projection 25, which carries a friction-wheel 26. (Shown best in Fig. 3.) The lower portions of the handle-chamber O and the extensionchamber 1) are covered by a cap-plate 27,-

which is pivoted upon the spindle 20, on which the trigger-wheel D turns, and when the capplate 27 is inposition the aforesaid chambers are completely'closed; but when a new reel of caps is to be placed in the magazine-chainbernam.ely, the handle chamber (l-the cap-plate 27 is carried from over the lower portion of the handle or magazine chamber,

exposing the reel-spindle 19, as'is shown in Fig. 1.

In operation the exposed trigger-tooth near est the handle-is drawn inward with the finger, the handle of the pistol being grasped by the hand, whereupon the next upper trigger-tooth will engage at its cam or curved edge with the friction-wheel 26' of the hammer and will carry the hammer back to the position shown in Fig. 3. At the same time the movement of the trigger-Wheel incident to the rearward movement of said triggar-tooth will cause the cap-tape to be fed upward a sufiicient distance to an ex- ,plosive-pocfret 17 in position against the J lated by a very young child.

breech a of the barrel, so that at the time the hammer E is released from its engagement with the trigger-tooth pressing it outward the hammer is carried forward by the spring 24 and explodes the presented cap. Im mediateiy after firing the finger is advanced. to grasp the next exposed trigger-tooth, and it in its turn is drawn rearward and the hammer is again carried outward to the cooked position. The tape is again fed upward and the hammer-is again quickly released and another cap is exploded; The force of the hammer in striking the cap is sufficient to separate the exploded portion of the tape from the main body thereof.

As has been stated, this toy pistol is capable of being rapidly-fired and maybe manipult is simple and economic in its construction and is likewise safe.

inner and" Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentr 1. in a toy cap-pistol, a trigger-wheel, a feed-drum forming a portion of the wheel, a series of pins on the periphery of the drum and occupying a central position thereon, and smaller pins also on the'peripher-y of the drum and arranged in circumferential series near the edges of the drum, for the purpose set forth. i

2. In toy cap-pistols, a trigger-wheel, a tapefeed drum carried by said wheel, and provided with a series of pins arranged centrally on the periphery and pins also on' the ps riphery near the edges of the drum, a springpressed hamrner provided with a projection at its forward longitudinal edge about centrally between its ends and a friction-wheel carried by said projection and adapted to be engaged by the said trigger-wheel.

3. A toy pistol having a closed breech, a hammer arranged to strike against the breech, a trigger-wheel, a tape-feed forming a portion of the wheel, guide-rollers for the tape and opposing guide-ribs located below the breech, and between which the tape passes to the breech, the said guide-ribs being flared outwardly or from each other at their lower ends and extending adjacent to the upper guideroller, as set fort 4. A toy pistol having a handle and a closed breech, the handle being provided with a chamber throughout its length open back of the breech, a cap-tape reel mounted to turn in the lower part of the handle-chamber, a spring secured at its lower end in said chamber below the cap-tape reel, a hammer carried at the upper end of the spring above the 'cap-tape reel, and adapted to engage the breech, a trigger-wheel having cam-teeth for engagement with a forward prcjection on the hammer, the said wheel being provided with a feed-drum for the cap-tape, and means for guiding the tape to the breech, as set forth,

5. In a toy cap-pistol, a trigger-wheel having cam-teeth, a cap-tape provided with apertures between its explosive-pockets, a drum carried by the trigger-Wheel, pins upon the periphery of the drum-and occupying a central position thereon, the said pins being adapted to enter the apertures in the captape, and a series of shorter pins also at the periphery of the drum, arranged at each side of the longer pins and at points betweensaid longer pins and adapted to enter the tape and direct the said apertures to the longer pins.

6. The combination with a pistol-body having a handle-chan1ber and a closed breech, a hammer having a springsnpport in the bandle-chamber and provided with a projection at its forward longitudinal edge between its ends, a friction-wheel car led by said projection and a support within the chamber for a tape-reel, of a triggeowheel mounted in the handleand provided with cam-teeth extendingsome within and some without the handle- IIO breech, substantially as described.

7. Ina; toy pistol, the combination with a pistol-body having a handle-chamber and a closed breech, a tape spool orreel mounted to turn on a spindle fixed in the lower.por-

tion of the handle-chamber, a ham'mer, and' a spring secured at one end in the handlechamber and carrying the'said hammer at its other end, of a trigger-wheel mounted in the handle and provided with cam-teeth adapted to engage the said hammer, the said trigger- Wheel having a drum or hub at one side, pins,

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upon the periphery of the drum and occupying a central position thereon, the said pins being adapted to enterapertures in a cape tape, a series of shorter pins also at the periphery of the drum, and arranged to enter the tape and direct the said apertures to the longer pins, guide-rollers in the handle-chamber above and below the said drum at the i rearthereof, and opposing. guide-ribs located below the breech and between which the tape the, breech, substantiallyas set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed' my" name-to thi's'speoifieation in the presence of .two subscribing witnesses, x-

W LTERJ SEPH TU'RNtUnl Witnesses: PET-ER -GALLEGHER, J. M. SHERROUSE. 

